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Days after the front-runner was indicted on charges of trying to subvert an election, Republican candidates in their presidential primary returned to the campaign trail acting as if nothing had changed. Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, showed up in Ukraine, a dramatic attempt to focus on foreign policy. And former Vice President Mike Pence talked up the “Trump-Pence administration” record at a town hall in New Hampshire. Voters wanted to know what they thought of the new charges. Trump supporters greeted Mr. Pence with a sign calling him a “traitor.” Mr. Trump, too, had thoughts.

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He'll lose if he doesn't ... Extremism isn't going to get you elected," Bigelow said in an interview, adding that he had communicated these concerns to DeSantis' campaign. DeSantis' campaign finances have come under scrutiny in recent weeks after his campaign said it had let go 38 employees, or over one-third of staff. Bigelow said he agreed with most of DeSantis' policies, however, and that he was "spot on" in his war on "wokeism." Bigelow said he had told DeSantis' campaign manager Generra Peck that DeSantis needed to be more moderate to have a chance. DeSantis' campaign did not respond to queries about Peck and Bigelow.

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[1/3] Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., July 28, 2023. China is mentioned daily at campaign stops, in digital ads and in policy speeches by the various Republican candidates. Some 50% of Americans identify China as the greatest threat to the United States, according to a Pew Research poll released in late July. On the stump, they have said the United States must stand by Ukraine. If the United States does not confront Russia, they say, China will feel emboldened.

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It’s not clear how much online support DeSantis’ campaign had from this area, because his campaign did not appear in WinRed’s filing. Scott’s top donor ZIP code was Mount Pleasant, a Charleston suburb, while Haley’s was Lexington, a Columbia suburb. Chris Christie’s top online donor ZIP codes were from the Garden State. Some of his other top ZIP codes for online donors included Washington, D.C. and a D.C. suburb in northern Virginia. His top 10 ZIP codes in terms of online donors were all from Long Island, N.Y.

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CNN —Ron DeSantis on Tuesday defended his record delivering “pro-life protections” as Florida governor following criticism from the Susan B. Anthony anti-abortion group over his reluctance to embrace a national ban. I’ll be a pro-life president, and I will come down on the side of life,” DeSantis told Kelly. “We are running on doing things that I know I can accomplish.”“I think the states have the primary jurisdiction over it,” DeSantis told Kelly. But clearly, right now, you are going to see different states go in different directions and I understand that,” DeSantis added. I think that’s humane to do.”Asked if he thought Trump has gone “soft on abortion a little bit,” DeSantis said, “Well, I think so.”

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Who Has Made It to the First Republican Debate So Far? At least seven candidates appear to have made the cut so far for the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23. To participate, each candidate must first satisfy fund-raising and polling criteria set by the Republican National Committee. But even though Mr. Trump is clearly the dominant Republican candidate so far, he has remained noncommittal about attending the debate and questioned his need to share the stage with candidates who lag far behind him in the polls. As for the remaining hopefuls, they have three weeks left to scrape together the necessary donors and polling support.

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☆ Kamala Harris quickly dismissed Ron DeSantis' invite to discuss Florida's controversial education standards: 'There were no redeeming qualities of slavery'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis' invite to discuss Florida's education standards. Harris has slammed Florida for adopting standards that would teach middle schoolers that enslaved people derived some benefits from slavery. "There were no redeeming qualities of slavery," Harris said in Orlando. Ron DeSantis' invitation for her to discuss the state's controversial education standards, furthering a fight between the White House and the state. Harris was responding to DeSantis' invitation for Harris to discuss the standards with Dr. William Allen, who served on an advisory committee that came up with 215-page standards.

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☆ Boos, corn and criminal charges: Trump and GOP rivals storm Iowa
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Former US president and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 28, 2023. The dynamic between Trump and his would-be challengers has held firm even as Trump racks up criminal charges in multiple cases, with possible additional indictments forthcoming. Republican presidential candidate former Texas Congressman Will Hurd speaks to guests at the Republican Party of Iowa 2023 Lincoln Dinner on July 28, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. Republican presidential candidate businessman Perry Johnson speaks to guests at the Republican Party of Iowa 2023 Lincoln Dinner on July 28, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. "If I weren't running, I would have nobody coming after me," he said at the Lincoln Dinner.

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☆ Peltz, Druckenmiller, Navarro give big to Tim Scott PACs as DeSantis falters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A super PAC backing Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. on Monday disclosed major donations from some of the nation's wealthiest business leaders. Between April and June this year, he gave $80,000 to the PAC backing Scott, who only officially entered the race in May. He also gave $15 million to Club for Growth Action, a separate super PAC that is taking on Trump's latest run for president. Rowan donated $250,000 to a different pro-Scott super PAC, Trust In The Mission (TIM) PAC, last quarter. Ben Navarro, a South Carolina businessman and CEO of Sherman Financial Group, donated $5 million to the same committee.

Persons: Sen, Tim Scott, Scott, Nelson Peltz, Jeffrey Yass, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peltz, Trump, Ron DeSantis, GOP megadonor, Druckenmiller, Marc Rowan, Rowan, Ben Navarro Organizations: PAC, Wall Street, Scott Opportunity, Federal, Commission, Trump, Trian Fund Management, Capitol, Florida Gov, GOP, Susquehanna International Group, Scott, for Growth, Opportunity Matters, Hamptons, Apollo Global Management, Trust, Sherman Financial Group Locations: Florida, Yass, South Carolina

☆ Sen. Tim Scott sees big money donor interest while Gov. Ron DeSantis hunts for cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSen. Tim Scott sees big money donor interest while Gov. Ron DeSantis hunts for cashCNBC's Brian Schwartz joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the 2024 GOP presidential nominee race, why wealthy Wall Street megadonors are showing interest in Sen. Tim Scott, and more.

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☆ DeSantis touts his blue-collar upbringing on the campaign trail, but it hasn't made a dent with working-class voters. Trump still reigns supreme among likely GOP primary voters, a new poll says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis has sought to paint himself as a protector of middle-class values in the 2024 race. But Trump retains a huge 65% to 9% edge over DeSantis among GOP voters making under $50,000, per a new Times/Siena College poll. Even among GOP voters making over $100,000, which had previously been a brighter spot for DeSantis, he trailed Trump, albeit by a narrower 23 points (46%-23%). Overall, Trump retains a sizable edge in the GOP primary, with 54% selecting the former president as their top choice, followed by DeSantis at 17%. Nikki Haley of South Carolina are each sitting at 3% support among likely primary voters, with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Gov.

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☆ Ron DeSantis needs to 'show charisma' and be 'about looking people in the eye' if he wants to actually become president, says New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sununu said DeSantis would have show "charisma and leadership" in order to win the GOP primary. Despite the stream of GOP candidates in the state, former President Trump retains a polling edge. DeSantis has heavily touted after enacting plenty of conservative policies in Florida as a cornerstone of his candidacy, but New Hampshire Gov. Sununu recently argued that Trump polling below 50% in New Hampshire gave other candidates a huge opportunity to make the case for their respective candidacies. "Either you're willing to swing, you're willing to give the punch and take the punch and show leadership, or you're kowtowing," Sununu said during an interview on Fox News.

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☆ A Florida Republican running for Congress says DeSantis may have tanked his own political career in the state by running against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Republican Alan Pincus told WaPo that DeSantis may have tanked his political future in Florida over his 2024 bid. DeSantis once led Trump in earlier Florida surveys of the Republican presidential primary. But Trump has continued to dominate the GOP race and DeSantis has had to reboot his campaign. DeSantis once led in early Florida polling among the GOP presidential contenders. But even in the Sunshine State, he's fallen behind Trump — in a head-to-head contest, the latest Florida Atlantic University/Mainstreet Research survey had Trump leading DeSantis 54%-37%.

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☆ GOP candidate Will Hurd slams Ron DeSantis' defense of Florida’s slavery curriculum
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Summer Concepcion | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis for defending Florida's new public school standards that teach that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills. "But this is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful." A few of DeSantis' Republican opponents, including Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and former New Jersey Gov. Doug Burgum, another 2024 GOP contender, told NBC News "it's an absurd idea" to think that slavery benefited Black people. Asked about the incident on Sunday, Hurd said: "I knew there were going to be people that didn't like it."

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☆ US VP Harris embraces new attack role, draws fresh Republican fire
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog (not pictured) in her ceremonial offices at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2023. Biden credits Black voters for his 2020 victory, with exit polls showing he carried 87% of the vote. His campaign accused another Black Republican who criticized the changes, which include teaching that slavery had possible benefits to the enslaved, of being a Harris supporter. Voters wary of the president’s advanced age of 80 are expected to take a much harder look at the vice president. “We are running against Kamala Harris.

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☆ GOP Rep. John James, one of the party's highest-profile Black lawmakers, blasts Ron DeSantis over Florida's new slavery curriculum: 'You've gone too far. Stop.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ron DeSantis over the new slavery curriculum in Florida. James on the social media platform X said DeSantis is now "so far from the Party of Lincoln." DeSantis has pushed back against Rep. Donalds and Sen. Scott over their critiques of the changes. Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida. Donalds on Friday made an appearance on Fox News, where he pointed to the DeSantis campaign over the dustup.

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☆ Opinion | With DeSantis Reeling, What About Tim Scott?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Unless that battle results in a DeSantis collapse and a chance for someone else to go up against the front-runner. After all, why should DeSantis be the only non-Trump hope just because he seemed potent early on? Say this for Scott: He has an obvious asset that DeSantis is missing, a fundamental good cheer that Americans favor in their presidents. The reason that DeSantis seemed like the best hope against Trump was a record and persona that seemed to meet Republican voters where they are. On certain issues, Covid policy especially, he could claim to represent the views of Trump’s supporters better than Trump himself.

Persons: Tim Scott, Scott, Joe, George W, Trump, Trump’s Organizations: Trump, Republican, Disney Locations: African American

☆ Kamala Harris embraces new attack role, draws fresh Republican fire
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The high-profile speeches are part of an expanded role for U.S. President Joe Biden's much-scrutinized governing partner ahead of the election, senior Democrats say. Biden credits Black voters for his 2020 victory, with exit polls showing he carried 87% of the vote. Senator Tim Scott, the most high-profile Black candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential race, of accepting Harris's "lie" about Florida's new slavery curriculum requirements. His campaign accused another Black Republican who criticized the changes, which include teaching that slavery had possible benefits to the enslaved, of being a Harris supporter. Voters wary of the president's advanced age of 80 are expected to take a much harder look at the vice president.

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☆ A Trump strategist compared Ron DeSantis' candidacy to New Coke, which was released to much fanfare in 1985 but quickly flopped
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis has sought to paint himself as a conservative without Donald Trump's political baggage. Trump strategist Chris LaCivita told the Washington Post DeSantis' candidacy was like New Coke. "He's trying to run to the right of Trump or he's trying to be Trump without the baggage — that's not a message," he said of DeSantis. AP Photo/Charles Kelly, fileIn April 1985, Coca-Cola debuted New Coke — a reformulated Coca-Cola that was tweaked to have a smoother and sweeter taste — to much fanfare. New Coke was renamed as Coke II in 1990 before being discontinued in 2002.

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☆ Trump shows in Iowa he still rules the GOP – despite his deepening criminal peril
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“As it stands right now, you will be voting in Iowa, while multiple criminal cases are pending against former President Trump,” Hutchinson said. Donald Trump is not running for president to represent the people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020,” Hurd said to loud boos. “Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison,” he said as jeers started to crescendo. But if Trump is to be stopped, there is no sign so far that it will happen in Iowa. Unlike some of the other GOP candidates, Trump is not using the dinner to also hold multiple Iowa campaign stops.

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☆ 2024 Republican candidate Scott decries Florida's new Black history plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Senator Tim Scott, the most high-profile Black candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential race, has blasted his rival Ron DeSantis, Florida's governor, over the state's newly adopted Black history curriculum, saying "there's no silver lining" in slavery. Without naming DeSantis, Scott said he hoped that every candidate in the Republican field "would appreciate that." Scott's remarks came after another prominent Black Republican, U.S. Representative Byron Donalds of Florida, also criticized the new standards. That triggered an outraged pushback from DeSantis' campaign online, which suggested Donalds was a supporter of Kamala Harris, a Democrat and the first Black vice president. Harris last week delivered a fierce rebuke of DeSantis and the history curriculum while on a trip to Florida.

Persons: Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Scott, DeSantis, Scott's, Byron Donalds of, Donalds, Kamala Harris, Harris, Donald Trump, Joe Biden's, James Oliphant, Ross Colvin, Richard Chang Organizations: Republican, Twitter, Black Republican, U.S, Democrat, Black, DeSantis, Republican Party, Florida, of Education, Thomson Locations: Iowa, Byron Donalds of Florida, Florida

☆ A Reeling DeSantis Takes a Swing at Scott, Now a Top Rival
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | More About Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ron DeSantis of Florida hit back on Friday at one of his leading Republican rivals, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, accusing the senator of credulously repeating liberal criticisms over Florida’s educational standards for the teaching of slavery. A day earlier, Mr. Scott had joined a long list of politicians, educators and historians in criticizing Florida’s new standards for African American history, which include a widely denounced line that middle schoolers should be instructed that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”Speaking to reporters in Iowa, Mr. Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, said: “What slavery was really about was separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating.”

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott of, Scott Organizations: Republican Locations: Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Iowa

has allowed committees to not itemize subvendor payments when those payments are an extension of the original vendor’s work. Experts say it is illegal for campaigns to pay campaign staff members through limited liability companies, or for vendors to serve merely as conduits to hide the ultimate recipient of campaign money. Indeed, while the use of limited liability companies by Mr. Scott’s campaign is striking in its scale, it is not unique among Republican presidential candidates. Former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 campaign was the subject of litigation over its use of limited liability companies run by campaign staff and family members that were allegedly conduits for hundreds of millions of dollars of spending. His campaign defended the practice, saying the intermediary companies were acting as the primary vendors.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Paul Kilgore —, Kilgore, Donald J Organizations: Republican, Gov Locations: Florida, Athens, Ga

☆ Tim Scott sees big money donor interest while Ron DeSantis hunts for cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Nicholas Pfosi | ReutersSen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is seeing a wave of wealthy donor interest as he runs for president, while Florida Gov. Herring has already donated $6,600 to Scott's 2024 run for president, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Nikki Haley will be in the Hamptons on Sunday for a fundraising event, according to an invitation reviewed by CNBC. Sobel, who is a managing partner at Valor Capital Group, donated $6,600 to DeSantis' campaign in late June, according to Federal Election Commission records. Andrew Romeo, a spokesman for the DeSantis campaign, pointed CNBC to their fundraising efforts in the second quarter.

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☆ Rep. Nancy Mace suggests she skipped morning sex with her fiancé to be on time for prayer breakfast
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sen. Tim Scott hosted the 13th annual South Carolina Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday. Rep. Nancy Mace spoke and implied she skipped pre-marital sex that morning to be there. In a quip the GOP congresswoman recognized might be "a little TMI," Mace suggested she skipped sex that morning with her fiancé, Patrick Bryant, because she was going to be late to the 13th annual prayer breakfast that was hosted by Sen. Tim Scott. I gotta get to the prayer breakfast, and I gotta be on time." The South Carolina representative hasn't always fallen in line with her GOP colleagues on cultural issues.

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